Arizona Cardinals President Michael Bidwill is not pleased with a perceived lack of support among Glendale officials for Super Bowl XLIX

He's in charge of Forbes' 25th-most-valuable NFL franchise. His team plays home games in a stadium partially paid for by taxpayers in Arizona and its host city of Glendale. You might think that would be enough to make Michael Bidwill, the man in charge of the Arizona Cardinals, happy.

But Bidwill has a real problem with the people inside Glendale City Hall. Specifically, he does not think they have done nearly enough to support his team's efforts to host the Super Bowl in January.

"I think it would be a huge economic boon to the community," he said in an interview Sunday night with Dan Bickley on Connecting Arizona after the game. "Obviously we may not get as many visitors in, but there's still going to be a great...a lot of people coming to town, even if it's a home game for us."

While the prospect of hosting the Super Bowl is enough to get any NFL owner excited, Bidwill's mood changed dramatically when asked about Glendale's role in hosting the big game.

"They're not a partner at all," he told Bickley. "The city hall people really have done nothing. And they're not going to be (a partner). All the events -- the decisions have been made to host them in Phoenix and Scottsdale. The hotels here in Glendale are still gouging, so they haven't been a good partner."

Accusations of gouging aside, what is true is that nearby hotels have not agreed to to block out rooms out for the games as the NFL requires. As a result, the NFL decided to put all of its pregame marquee events in downtown Phoenix.

Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers said he would not force local businesses to change their practices to accommodate a professional sports league. Since then, only one Glendale hotel has agreed to block out rooms and that hotel is 11 miles from the stadium, while hotels in Phoenix and Scottsdale have accommodated the NFL.

Bidwill said more than 250,000 people attended the NFL Experience, a public celebration in downtown Phoenix, in 2008, the last time Arizona hosted the Super Bowl. By some estimates, the planned Super Bowl Central event -- which will encompass 12 city blocks -- could attract as many as a million visitors this time around.

Scottsdale is also benefiting in the form of Super Bowl parties.

While they may not attract as many Super Bowl week activities and parties, Glendale officials and Westgate City Center business leaders say they expect plenty of business for them as well.

Bidwill also said Glendale claimed to have made money on the last Super Bowl. "Recently they have been telling people they lost money on the Super Bowl, which is a bunch of malarkey," he told Bickley during Sunday's interview. "They were telling people after that Super Bowl that they made a lot of money and had $13 million of media exposure value to the city of Glendale. There is no doubt it was a windfall for them."

According to one study, that last statement is not true. In 2008, the city commissioned Elliot D. Pollack & Co. to look at how much money the event generated for Glendale. That study found the city actually spent more than $2 million more on the game than it took in.

Glendale has said that it just can't afford the tab for the Super Bowl. Mayor Weiers has long complained about the state of finances in his city. This past spring, Glendale asked the legislature to help pay for security costs that are expected to total more than $3 million. The legislature said no.

Glendale says it will still allocate the money for this year's Super Bowl, but it cautions that this will be the last time. The city said in a statement in April, "Moving forward, it will be Glendale's expectation that those groups seeking city support to bid on major events, incorporate the costs of public safety into their event expenses and fundraising efforts."

So when big game kicks off this January, Glendale will host the game, the Bidwills and the Cardinals will host the party, and the bulk of the revenue will go to the NFL and other cities in the Valley. Just like it did the last time the Super Bowl rolled into Glendale.